Baba Hari Dass Quotes

#1. By running away from the world no one can get peace. Anywhere you go the problems will go with you, because the problems are inside you and not outside. Outside is simply a projection of inside.

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#2. Children copy their parents, friends, and teachers. They will develop the habits of the people around them. So if you want your child to be honest, peaceful and happy you should be that way first.

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#3. Work honestly, meditate everyday, meet people without fear and play.

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#4. Victorian society was homogeneous without being homogenized. It was, to paraphrase the epigram about Parliament, a society of extreme eccentrics who agreed so well that they could afford to differ.

Kenneth Rexroth

#5. You can't teach a hunter it's wrong to kill.

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#6. The body is a boat that carries the soul in the ocean of the world. If it is not strong, or it has a hole, then it cannot cross the ocean, so the first duty is to fix the boat.

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#7. Cultivate a sympathetic heart, humility in dealings, and selflessness in action. If these are practiced with earnestness and sincerity, then you will win the race of life.

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#8. Tapas is not a penance, it's a mental training to develop will power

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#9. When body, breath, and mind work together in harmony to achieve a spiritual goal, that is yoga.

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#10. Who realizes what? That is realization.

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#11. Never rush an emotion; everything in life has a rhythm, it is the pauses and silences that speak the truth.

Michael Jackson

#12. Even stupid people have a role to play
in your life. They make you wiser and
more patient.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#13. Are changes in the economy caused by changes in the mental state of society?

Dimitri Maex

#14. Desire is the creator; desire is the destroyer.

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#15. Mad, bad, and dangerous to know.

Caroline Lamb

#16. Life does not hurt nearly as much if we have learned to listen to ourselves and to recognize how fully and richly we are trying to tell ourselves the truth.

Eugene Kennedy

#17. The wolf's clear, intelligent eyes brushed mine. The wolf is gentle-hearted. Not noble, not cowardly, just nonfighting.

Lois Crisler

#18. If you work on yoga, yoga will work on you.

Baba Hari Dass

#19. There are simply no shortcuts in the long run.

Frank Sonnenberg

#20. No one can please everyone. Your mental peace is more important. If you are in peace, then others around you will feel peace. So your best effort should be to work on yourself.

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#21. Fate is for the weak--those people who don't have enough power or will to shape life into what they need it to be.

Erin Watt

#22. As soon as a person starts thinking, 'I want to be a better person,' that is the start of Yoga.

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#23. Sometimes I call directors. Sometimes I just meet with them. It just happens. It's not that I'm pushy. It comes naturally. But I go ahead. I don't stay in my armchair, waiting for the phone to ring.

Juliette Binoche

#24. Life is not a burden, but we make it one when we refuse to accept things as they are.

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#25. You couldn't hurt a fly.
Actually I was pretty good at pinging flies right out of the air, but I tried to look appropriately harmless.

Josh Lanyon

#26. Husband and wife are like the two equal parts of a soybean. If the two parts are put under the earth separately, they will not grow. The soybean will grow only when the parts are covered by the skin. Marriage is the skin which covers each of them and makes them one.

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#27. If a pickpocket meets a Holy Man, he will see only His pockets.

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#28. You see, I have no real complaints of how you've left your past behind I guess what gets me worried is you've erased him from your mind.

Harry Chapin

#29. We are always learning from each others. Only when we merge inside God would we stop learning. We will understand more as we teach others, so we rely on teaching in order to learn for ourselves.

Baba Hari Dass

#30. Laura began to model herself more and more on those around her; to grasp that the unpardonable sin is to vary from the common mould.

Henry Handel Richardson

#31. The world is not a burden; we make it a burden by our desires. When the desires are removed, the world is as light as a feather on an elephant's back.

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#32. Love everyone, including yourself. This is real sadhana.

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#33. Everything that is not me is incomprehensible.

Louis Aragon

#34. I step in then close the curtain as she eases her jeans past her underwear. If Echo kisses me, touches me, shit, looks at me the right way, I'll lose my fucking mind.

Katie McGarry